This just about sums up every conversation I have about music lately...

Can a guy not like sharing promising new bands with people without being called a hipster these days? I want nothing to do with that scene. Too much pretense and faked angst. I just happen to like finding cool new music.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. H.G. Wells

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle

If you tell people about how you aren't a hipster, chances are you're a hipster.

There are 10 types of people-- those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I'm just hoping to avoid being a hip-replacement-ster, these days.

Every conversation with my mother, at some point, contains a story of one of her friends, whom I knew while growing up, coming from or going to the hospital with an artificial knee or hip, cataracts, hearing aides, surgeries and infections.I now feel guilty just saying, "I'm great, mom. How are you?".

Good kind: intellectually engaged with the world to such a degree that due to a growing knowledge in a particular area of interest (board games, books, movies, music, bicycles, beer, scotch, woodworking etc etc etc), one becomes a mini expert, with very specifically defined likes and dislikes within that area. Also known as A GEEK. Yes, everyone on this website is the good kind of hipster with regards to board games. Muggles often have a hard time differentiating between the good kind of hipster and the bad kind, because their plebeian, mainstream tastes and mentality mean that they don't think about ANYTHING very hard, and like to put people into stupid categories and see the world in stereotypes.

Bad kind: the kind of hipster that does things ironically. A little irony is healthy, but excessive irony is soul poison. If you drink a bad beer because it's ironic, or listen to a bad band because it's ironic or wear stupid clothing or facial hair only because it intentionally looks stupid and ugly and therefore is some sort of metacommentary on physical appearance, than you are a giant ass-hat who only deserved repeated facial punching.

Sounds like you're the good kind, not the bad kind. SO keep on truckin' and ignore those muggles.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. H.G. Wells

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle

Bad kind: the kind of hipster that does things ironically. A little irony is healthy, but excessive irony is soul poison. If you drink a bad beer because it's ironic, or listen to a bad band because it's ironic or wear stupid clothing or facial hair only because it intentionally looks stupid and ugly and therefore is some sort of metacommentary on physical appearance, than you are a giant ass-hat who only deserved repeated facial punching.

Sometimes I get along with irony-hipsters because I genuinely do no-longer-popular things unironically.

Bad kind: the kind of hipster that does things ironically. A little irony is healthy, but excessive irony is soul poison. If you drink a bad beer because it's ironic, or listen to a bad band because it's ironic or wear stupid clothing or facial hair only because it intentionally looks stupid and ugly and therefore is some sort of metacommentary on physical appearance, than you are a giant ass-hat who only deserved repeated facial punching.

Sometimes I get along with irony-hipsters because I genuinely do no-longer-popular things unironically.